European Union

Yesterday, the Independent Commission on Aid Impact (ICAI) released a report on DFID’s oversight of EU aid. The report, based on a limited number of case studies in three recipient countries, found that both DFID and EU institutions could work more closely together in delivering aid, and that EU institutions’ monitoring......

This World AIDS Day, right on the heels of our hard-fought campaign around the EU budget, ONE members in Brussels continued their take over the EU institutions and the city-at-large. In conjunction with the launch of ONE’s AIDS Accountability Report, ONE members handed out 1000 red ribbons in the European Parliament Wednesd......

Yesterday, ahead of World AIDS Day 2012, ONE published a report that takes a hard look at how much progress the world has made on AIDS and analyses which countries have been leaders and laggards in the fight. ‘The Beginning of the End? Tracking Global Commitments on AIDS’ shows that although significant progress......

You might have seen in news from Brussels last Friday that leaders from the 27 different EU countries were unable to come to an agreement on the next seven-year budget. Negotiations will now continue into next year. The good news is we now have a chance to reverse devastating cuts proposed to EU aid spending.…...

For campaigners targeting 27 EU Member States with diverse national priorities, sometimes it can seem as if we’re shouting into the wind. As poverty- fighters, we’re competing with lobbyists and special interest groups for the time, attention, and political will of decision-makers. So when a key leader takes notice at a c......

Yesterday, just as European leaders began to descend on Brussels, ONE hit the streets with volunteers from across the globe and paid a visit to all 27 EU permanent representations. As a creative response to President Van Rompuy’s statement that the EU budget summit could be the first “three shirter” under his watch, ONE......

In 2008, when food prices soared, donors looked for smart ideas to help vulnerable communities cope by boosting local food production and enabling them to earn enough money to buy food and save for when times are tight. One such smart idea was in Kenya, where a EU and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization…...

Today, President Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, is expected to make another proposal for cuts to the seven-year EU budget and lifesaving development aid is on the chopping block. As campaigners, we’re used to thinking creatively. In times of urgency, we pull out all the stops. That’s how we landed on our m......

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) was launched in 2008 and is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative, involving donors, partner country governments and civil society organisations. Organisations that sign up to the initiative publish information about their aid to a registry which can then be accessed by......

As regular readers of the ONE blog will know Europe’s leaders are right now in the midst of crucial budget negotiations, which will have a massive impact on those living in extreme poverty around the world. Some leaders are proposing cuts to the EU’s lifesaving programs. But what would these cuts actually mean in prac......

For decades, farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa have been struggling to produce enough food from the land they have. But in Eastern Kenya, more than 50,000 farmers are now using a clever new technique that prevents pests and weeds from destroying crops. The results are pretty amazing. The system, called ‘Push-Pull’, is n......

European leaders are facing increasing pressure to cut the overall EU budget and there is a real danger the axe will fall on smart, lifesaving aid. This would have a devastating impact on the world’s most vulnerable people. Right now Cyprus, which currently holds the rotating Presidency of the EU, is writing proposals, for ......

The following is a guest blog is by Diana Shuma, Advocacy officer, DSW Tanzania. Thanks to an EU-funded programme that promotes community healthcare, 36 staff have been deployed to a region of Tanzania where health workers were once virtually non-existent. The village of Kware in the Hai District of Tanzania has long faced an......

Europe’s leaders are negotiating the next long-term EU budget for 2014 to 2020, and over the past weeks we are hearing increasingly worrying news that concrete proposals for €51 billion of EU aid to the world’s poorest are coming under serious threat. Several governments are considering cuts to lifesaving EU aid program......